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Phone Re-booting continuosly

**** ****. I was messing around with the options in Titanium Backup Pro and selected an option that said that i can remove a few apps that have been linked to my ROM and free upto 80 MB in memory. It had something to do with Dalvik Cache. The software said that the phone will restart after the process. But the phone gets stuck at the HTC Quietly Brilliant Brilliant" white screen and re-boots. I tired Pulling out the battery, Wiping cache, Factory reset using CWM but the problem continues. What do i do? The phone is hardly 3 weeks old. Its still S-ON, rooted and unlocked at htcdev.com

Can you not restore a nandroid? Or try flashing a rom that doesn't need s-off like CyanogenMod 7.
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InsertDumbNick said:
**** ****. I was messing around with the options in Titanium Backup Pro and selected an option that said that i can remove a few apps that have been linked to my ROM and free upto 80 MB in memory. It had something to do with Dalvik Cache. The software said that the phone will restart after the process. But the phone gets stuck at the HTC Quietly Brilliant Brilliant" white screen and re-boots. I tired Pulling out the battery, Wiping cache, Factory reset using CWM but the problem continues. What do i do? The phone is hardly 3 weeks old. Its still S-ON, rooted and unlocked at htcdev.com
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Restore your nandroid, I think I remember you posted that you had one.

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Restore your nandroid, I think I remember you posted that you had one.
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Yeah i tried doing that. But get this error message in CWM:
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Couldn't open directory.
No files found.
The Backup is in a folder "2012-02-12.06.04.17" and this folder is in the sd-card root. Do i have to copy the files in this folder to the root as well??
Edit: I forgot to mention that the above nandroid backup folder was saved in my computer and the sd card on which i had made the backup initially was involved in multiple formats during my futile attempts to gain S-OFF ..

InsertDumbNick said:
Yeah i tried doing that. But get this error message in CWM:
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Couldn't open directory.
No files found.
The Backup is in a folder "2012-02-12.06.04.17" and this folder is in the sd-card root. Do i have to copy the files in this folder to the root as well??
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You shouldn't have to. Was the backup created in cwm? Have you checked that the files are in the folder? What option were you using to restore your backup?
Another option would be to installed a custom ROM.

I guess if you are using CWM, the folder will not be on root.
As far as I remember, it use to be in some folder named CWM or ClockWorkMod something like that.
I guess the folder "2012-02-12.06.04.17" should be under "\clockworkmod\backup\" folder.
Not quite sure as I am using Ext4 recovery now.
But guess someone around here should tell you the correct folder structure.
And, I guess if you could try to mount card on your computer you will be able to see and modify the folder and put it in right place with correct backup directory.

I think i have to create a few folders since the path that CWM is looking for the recovery doesn't exist. Can you tell me the correct path so that i can create an identical location to copy the backup to??

It'd literally take you 5 mins to install a custom rom? And then in theory your fine will work perfectly. Then just set it up and create a nandroid.
When I had problems I formatted the SD card and only left the CWM files on. Then it restored/worked fine.
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InsertDumbNick said:
I think i have to create a few folders since the path that CWM is looking for the recovery doesn't exist. Can you tell me the correct path so that i can create an identical location to copy the backup to??
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way2shree was correct in his post about the file structure. I think you need to do a bit of research before you do any serious damage to your phone.

vizzy said:
It'd literally take you 5 mins to install a custom rom?
When I had problems I formatted the SD card and only left the CWM files on. Then it restored/worked fine.
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Like i said the SD card on which CWM made the backup was formatted many times. Completely. So i had copied the folder with the backup to the computer.[Newb mistake. I realized the hard way]. And no the path is not \clockworkmod\backup\. Thanks anyway shree. Also i think CM7 is the only 1 that can be flashed with a S-on phone. so ill keep that as a final option since i still like sense.

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way2shree was correct in his post about the file structure. I think you need to do a bit of research before you do any serious damage to your phone.
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I looked all over the place and found only this \clockworkmod\backup\<date> . Made both the folders but still not recognized. Can anyone confirm that this is in fact the correct path??

Phew. Atlast got the backup restored. THank you guys for all your help. Looks like i wont be doing anything android related for the next MONTH till i at least have a general idea of wth im doing.

Going from 4.2 to 4.1.2 really messed it up

So I understand that it causes issues with files and partitions and such. What I can't figure out is WTH is going on. When I look in root explorer it all screwy looking, but when I use the file manager in recovery I can't access all the files I can with root explorer. Also recovery files look normal, but my downloads are not there.
Just need some insight here. Could I move my backup to the computer then do a full wipe and restore?
Thanks

Roman G said:
Could I move my backup to the computer then do a full wipe and restore?
Thanks
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Not sure why you would not have tried that before posting about it...all options should be exhausted, including searching for resources, beforehand!
What setup are you running?
I would think that the simplest solution for troubleshooting would be to move yuor back up and reformat data...then restore!

Yes you can.

Roman G said:
So I understand that it causes issues with files and partitions and such. What I can't figure out is WTH is going on. When I look in root explorer it all screwy looking, but when I use the file manager in recovery I can't access all the files I can with root explorer. Also recovery files look normal, but my downloads are not there.
Just need some insight here. Could I move my backup to the computer then do a full wipe and restore?
Thanks
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did u try a cm rom and then go back to sense by chance???

move everything from sdcard/0 back to sdcard then delete sdcard/0 (I had to delete in recovery)

[Q] Please Help!! (TWRP BACKUP)

Please help me! I was on Sense 5 rooted with twrp installed. Decided id try out the new CM 10.1 for the HTC ONE. So i backed up my system, data and everything else and proceeded to install CM. Decided it wasnt for me, went to TWRP, went to restore and there are no files there? What happened? I can see I only have 6GB storage available so the file is there somewhere!! How do i flash the backup? i read about a twrp utility or that the file structure is off?
Thanks for your help!!

UPDATE: When I go into a file manager, the backup from today is there.. it is in TWRP> BACKUPS> HT34JXXXXXX> (2013-05-14 @ 8:06 AM)
and inside that folder are the usual backup files. BUT IT STILL WONT SHOW UP IN TWRP WHEN I PRESS "RESTORE"

Anyone? I'm dieing here!!!

Reflash recovery, and see if now work.
I've restored yesterday my backup and no prob with TWRP.
And search your file in sdcard/0
If it will not work, reflash rom.

Don't know if this happened but I had a galaxy s3 before I got the htc one and I understood that cyanogenmod is a 4.2.2 type of rom and we have a 4.1.2 rom. A lot of peeps in the galaxy's forum would have trouble going back to touchwiz roms because the say flashing a 4.2.2type of rom partitions the memory files differently so then the 4.1.1 stock or custom roms. You may have to somehow unroot the phone and "push" the phone back to stock using your computer. People had to do that before with the s3. Hope that helps maybe. I have to go to work now. Good luck

Should I try to flash clockwork mod? Just go into the play store, download and flash from within the app? I don't understand I made a full nandroid it is in my phone and on my computer.. Why can't twrp recognize it?

Okaay said:
Should I try to flash clockwork mod? Just go into the play store, download and flash from within the app? I don't understand I made a full nandroid it is in my phone and on my computer.. Why can't twrp recognize it?
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CWM can't restore TWRP backup.
If you backupped your rom with TWRP, this will restore it.
Did you try to see in sdcard/0?

Guich said:
CWM can't restore TWRP backup.
If you backupped your rom with TWRP, this will restore it.
Did you try to see in sdcard/0?
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This is in the stock cm10 file manager. This is the exact backup I'd like to restore but when I go into the recovery and press on restore, nothing shows please keep responding!!!!

For team win recover the files need to be in /sdcard/0 the number zero or it won't be recognized. Move the directory structure to /sdcard/0. Also copy the directory with the backup to your computer in case.
Can we see the whole directory structure of where these files are located? like /recovery/2012305/ or where ever it happens to be?

nullkill said:
For team win recover the files need to be in /sdcard/0 the number zero or it won't be recognized. Move the directory structure to /sdcard/0. Also copy the directory with the backup to your computer in case.
Can we see the whole directory structure of where these files are located? like /recovery/2012305/ or where ever it happens to be?
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Yeah man, I'll post the pics. Here they are looks as though it is in 0/
I just backed up the cm ROM just to see what would happen and now when I go to restore, the cm10 backup is the only one there and I can't locate it in file manager anywhere
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Okaay said:
Yeah man, I'll post the pics. Here they are looks as though it is in 0/
I just backed up the cm ROM just to see what would happen and now when I go to restore, the cm10 backup is the only one there and I can't locate it in file manager anywhere
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Search the SD card for boot.emmc.win you should get two results one from the original backup and one from the new one. You need to get both the backups together. Also copy your original backup to your computer so you have a copy of it in case you need to wipe or something.

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Search the SD card for boot.emmc.win you should get two results one from the original backup and one from the new one. You need to get both the backups together. Also copy your original backup to your computer so you have a copy of it in case you need to wipe or something.
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This is what I see... Someone please help, the backup I wanna restore is already I'm TWRP folder on the internal storage but no files show up when I try the "restore" option in the recovery
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Okaay said:
This is what I see... Someone please help, the backup I wanna restore is already I'm TWRP folder on the internal storage but no files show up when I try the "restore" option in the recovery
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OK so did you copy your backup to your computer yet???? Well if not now would really really be the time to do that. Looks like there is a issue with how CM is doing the SD card and TWRP. So first copy the backup off of your phone. Should I say it again? COPY THE BACKUP OFF YOUR PHONE. Now go get the correct RUU for your phone. Run that sucker and restore the phone to stock. You will need to relock your bootloader. Once that is done put TWRP back on your phone and copy your backup to the phone.

Ran into this myself. Because of 4.2.2's support for multiple users, it segments the internal storage into pieces(i.e. 0 for first user, 1 for second user, 2, 3, so on). I didn't realize this and had to start from scratch.
Copy your TWRP backup(and anything else you don't want to lose) to your computer and delete the 0 file. Re-add your files to the internal storage(be sure to keep a copy on your computer). Then reboot into bootloader, fastboot erase cache, reflash, and reboot into recovery. Don't let the CM10.1 ROM start up, otherwise you'll be doing it again.
Alternatively, use the All-In-One toolkit to adb sideload a non-CM10.1 ROM onto your phone, delete the 0 folder(after transferring to your computer what you don't want to lose, of course), reboot recovery, and attempt to restore.

Thanks guys, got it working
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This is the same problems people with the GNex came across moving back from 4.2.2 to 4.1.2 last year - you have to remember the internal memory changed and manually move fles to the non-0 folders! You guys should read up more before jumping head long into a new Android version!
Glad it's sorted now though

nullkill said:
For team win recover the files need to be in /sdcard/0 the number zero or it won't be recognized. Move the directory structure to /sdcard/0. Also copy the directory with the backup to your computer in case.
Can we see the whole directory structure of where these files are located? like /recovery/2012305/ or where ever it happens to be?
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OOPs--sorry this must be an HTC specific problem--sorry for poking my Samsung nose in...
Maybe I am not understanding the thread but--
In my Galaxy Note2 all my TWRP backups, and I have about 5, are all in ext.sd. card and I have used it to restore on several occasions--could be a device specific situation, but in Note2 it's fine to have them in ext.sd card.

Flashing an 4.2.2 rom and file structure issue.

I decided to start this thread as both assistance for some as well as a collaberation on workarounds when you a person flashes a 4.2.2 rom coming from a 4.1.2.
Just like some (maybe most) I flashed CM 10.1 and played around a bit with it and decided it was just not ready to be run as a daily. Being the flashalohic that I am, I made sure I backed up before flashing CM 10.1 so when I went into recovery and went to restore imagine my surprise when it was blank, yep nothing was there. Why did this happen? Well doing some research and reading/searching I found out that the update from Android 4.1.2 to 4.2.2 changes the file structure of the 'virtual' sdcard on our devices. Actually it changes it for every device. What has changed is that the ability to add user accounts, similar to any regular computer, has been implemented. However, if the proper steps are not taken before you flash a new 4.2.2 Rom, you will end up with a huge mess and run out of room on your device in a hurry.
The actual location when viewed with a root file manager has been here on 4.1.2:
/data/media
And though you will see the same files in /sdcard and /storage/sdcard0, those are just symlinks to the same info, just like a shortcut (on a windows box) or alias (on a mac box). Once you flash a 4.2.2 ROM, the actual location gets changed (and all the files moved) to here:
/data/media/0
And the symlinks get changed to /sdcard/0 and /storage/sdcard0/0. On the surface, no big deal, right? Wrong. The problems arise if the version of your custom recovery is not compatible with a 4.2.2 ROM. If it is not and you keep flashing 4.2.2 ROMs you might soon end up in trouble. If, while using the 'older' custom recovery, you continue flashing, your sdcard ends up somewhere around here:
/data/media/0/0/0/0/0/0 (etc.) with all your files copied to every '0' directory and your symlinks end up the same way, and your device quickly runs out of space (the dreaded "your device is low on storage" message).
This may also make it very difficult to restore your nandroid of a 4.1.2 ROM as well. If you are already in that situation, not to worry, the solution for that is later in this post.
So far I have only been able to to copy all the files found in the last /data/media/0/0/0/0 (?) folder to my computer. Then using a file manager that will show hidden files and folders, copy/move the files in the last '0' directory to:
/data/media/0
And then use file explorer to delete all the other '0' directories until I have just this one:
/data/media/0
leaving nothing else in the symlinks but /sdcard/0 and /storage/sdcard0/0. This techniques is if you end up with a huge file structure.
****BACK UP YOUR SD CARD FIRST!!!!! before deleting any 0 folders!!!****
NOTE: A reboot of your device is essential at this point.
If after flashing a 4.2.2 ROM you decide you don't like it and want to restore your nandroid to your saved 4.1.2 ROM, how does that work out?
1.) Get yourself a (good) root file browser.
2.) Brows to /data/media/0
note: this is where android (and almost everything else that uses a Linux kernel) mounts anything that is considered "external" storage.
3.) Do all of your file fixing from here. It will make changes universally.
4.) select all within /data/media/0 and then paste everything back into /data/media selecting merge and/or overwrite. Once done, just delete the /data/media/0 folder, reboot your phone and Profit.
This is a pain and I agree but at this point is the only way I know how to get around this. If anyone knows other ways please share.
* While writting this I came across this info from user elfaure. I havent tried this yet as I am at work and get crappy signal but please post results if you try and if it works, please thank him! *
elfaure: Ok folks for next guy who decides to upgrade to 4.2 but does NOT want the multi-user environment, give this a try.
1. Download the attached file
2. Remove the .txt extension
3. Copy it to your /data directory
4. Open Android Terminal Emulator (Free Market app if you don't already have it)
5. At the prompt type "cd /data"
6. Type "chmod 644 .layout_version" on the file in /data (/data/.layout_version)
Code:
cd /data
chmod 644 .layout_versionNow when you upgrade to 4.2 you should stay single user and have no /data/media/0 directory when you are done. If anyone tries this please let me know if it works and thank me if it does.
ps-its just a special file in a special location, the presence of which tells Android NOT to upgrade your system to a multi-user environment. If you later decide you want multi-users, delete the file and reflash (from recovery) the stock or custom firmware or ROM or recovery. If your custom ROM or recovery wipes the entire /data partition less /data/media including this file, obviously then this will not help, but with latest versions of ROMs and recoveries that should not happen any more.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40911246#post40911246
It also looks as if he may be working on a script to help as well and I will keep track and update as needed.
So far this is what I have come up with and I hope it helps some and I hope others that are smarter than I can correct me if I am wrong on any of the above or other add information on other ways to correct this.

I think this is part of my issue but I don't have any 0 folder under data?
I too flashed the 4.2.2 ROM, and noticed that every everything on my sd card had somehow moved to my internal memory? When I went to reflash the ROM it failed. It I also tried to reflash the ROM I was originally running and it too failed. Luckily I was able to do a nandroid restore so the phone is "usable" but TWRP 2.5 still does not see my my external sd and that seems to be that make reason I can not do anything within in the recovery.
Any suggestions?

The op is telling you exactly how to fix it.

lizardking7112 said:
I think this is part of my issue but I don't have any 0 folder under data?
I too flashed the 4.2.2 ROM, and noticed that every everything on my sd card had somehow moved to my internal memory? When I went to reflash the ROM it failed. It I also tried to reflash the ROM I was originally running and it too failed. Luckily I was able to do a nandroid restore so the phone is "usable" but TWRP 2.5 still does not see my my external sd and that seems to be that make reason I can not do anything within in the recovery.
Any suggestions?
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Let my clarify:
I have used two different file managers and even used to terminal emulator using ls -la to make sure i have no hidden files
sdcard0/data/ there is no media directory
Maybe this isn't my problem, since I don't see any file/dir with a 0, but all this mess started when I loaded up a 4.2.2 ROM?

Everyone should check this out to aid you in your flashing addiction.
Happy flashing!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42237249
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I flashing an aosp Rom and nothing in my sd card changed. Maybe I'm lucky?
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Good information

so does this work? will i be able to nad back to sense and all my files are in the right place?

I couldn't get it to work, the attachment. However the new recovery I linked to looks to have promise but I haven't tested it yet cause I'm remote right now and need my phone at the moment. Will give it a go this weekend.
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Seems @imneveral0ne has found a way to assist folks that like to go between 4.2.2 and 4.1.2
Check out his thread here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42512892
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Weighing in, worked like a charm for the most part. TWRP recreated another TWRP folder inside its original TWRP folder (it has to be left at /data/media/0/TWRP for you to be able to reinstall a nandroid backup) [also forgoing obvious yo dawg joke here], but besides that my phone is back to being right as rain.

Nice write up on this issue. Thanks
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I'm sure it wouldn't work for doing a nandroid restore, but on my Galaxy Nexus I would just make certain I had the latest version of TWRP, boot into recovery, format the SD card, and then push the rom files to /data/media/ and flash. That is my only complaint about this change, really...truly "clean" installations are inherently more risky or difficult, dependent on your knowledge level.

It won't let me delete folder 0 no matter what. Inside that folder is a ViperRom folder that won't delete as well no matter what I do!

Thanks for this info. I think I'm going to take the plunge this weekend so this will be very helpful info.
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I think it moved my ROM data into the 0 folder, how do I get it out? Everything else from the 0 folder is deleted except for ViperROM's folder, and whenever I try to move or delete it, it just fails the operation. I already have a copy out of the 0 folder, but I still want it out, because otherwise I can't flash things, since it just shows the the almost* empty sdcard/0 folder. Help? Should I just put my mods in the 0 folder and deal with it?

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I think it moved my ROM data into the 0 folder, how do I get it out? Everything else from the 0 folder is deleted except for ViperROM's folder, and whenever I try to move or delete it, it just fails the operation. I already have a copy out of the 0 folder, but I still want it out, because otherwise I can't flash things, since it just shows the the almost* empty sdcard/0 folder. Help? Should I just put my mods in the 0 folder and deal with it?
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No. There is a script out there you can flash that will help. Check out post # 10.
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So can we delete the legacy file now? I haven't done anything with my internal storage since coming from 4.1.2 for the first time. It looks like twrp 2.6.3 copied all my files correctly to the 0 file but all the files are still also in "legacy" folder. Is it duplicate that I can delete from legacy or are they just symlinked? I am never going back now that we have official 4.3 release.

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So can we delete the legacy file now? I haven't done anything with my internal storage since coming from 4.1.2 for the first time. It looks like twrp 2.6.3 copied all my files correctly to the 0 file but all the files are still also in "legacy" folder. Is it duplicate that I can delete from legacy or are they just symlinked? I am never going back now that we have official 4.3 release.
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I am not certain to be honest. It looks like the file structure didn’t change with the release of 4.3 so it’s possible that they are symlinked. If all your files are moved to the /0/ folder and you have nothing in the legacy folder it would make sense that you would be able to but I have yet to test this.
I suppose this weekend I could back up the phone and file tree and give it a shot

Thanks for the response. I haven't tested out yet either but will post back if I do.

twrp not seeing backups / vice versa on file explorer

Just got my HTC1. rooted and flashed twrp 2601. back upped the stock rom. flashed venom and after getting it where I'd like, made a backup of that. now when i go to es explorer i can see my stock backup in the twrp folder but not the venom backup. when I go to twrp recovery, I can only see the venom backup but not the stock backup.
Any ideas on what the issue is?

There will be a backup folder in data/media and data/media/0, the folder in data/media needs to be merged with the other one.
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thanks cory. wierd how the directory switched like that. that's a first. is there an option to change the directory back to sdcard/twrp? couldn't find anything

killerb777 said:
thanks cory. wierd how the directory switched like that. that's a first. is there an option to change the directory back to sdcard/twrp? couldn't find anything
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That's due to the change in file structure between 4.1 and 4.2+
Don't know about TWRP, but for CWM recovery you can create a symlink, here's how: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991657
Though it seems the newer version of the recoveries have already been corrected.

killerb777 said:
thanks cory. wierd how the directory switched like that. that's a first. is there an option to change the directory back to sdcard/twrp? couldn't find anything
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Yah, it's because 4.2 added multi-user support.
So user data would be,
Data/media/0
Data/media/1
And so on...
I'm not sure about the option in twrp, I just formatted my SD and started fresh.
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